https://news.yahoo.com/7-eleven-shop...165212704.html
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I wonder if you can eat those?
Then there's this:
https://people.com/pets/large-snake-...mless-species/
I don’t know. I’ve eaten alligator before.
7-Elevens are really uncommon here in NC. For some inexplicable reason, when I was in Colorado I noticed the frequency of them, so I looked it up and found out that Denver alone had more than the entire state of North Carolina.
But we do have Sheetz. Which, I feel like the big lizard may have been happier with.
Im not a big reptile lover (except bearded dragons & chameleons) bc they eat rats and I love ratties ;(
Sheetz isn’t dissimilar. They might even originate from the same place.
Meet Slinky the asian water monitor. He's the same sub species as the original post.
https://youtu.be/ZNk3ZB2DPG8
Dave Kaufman and his adventures in Thailand with Asian Water Monitors. I'm a reptile person so this stuff fascinates me. They basically co-exist right there in the city.
https://youtu.be/f4_N-x2hJhA
Financial geniuses at work:
In the late 1980s, Southland Corporation was threatened by a rumored corporate takeover, prompting the Thompson family to take steps to convert the company into a private model by buying out public shareholders in a tender offer.[11] In December 1987, John Philp Thompson Sr., the chairman and CEO of 7-Eleven, completed a $5.2 billion management buyout of the company.[12] The buyout suffered from the effects of the 1987 stock market crash and after failing initially to raise high yield debt financing, the company was required to offer a portion of stock as an inducement to invest in the company's bonds.[13][14]
Various assets, such as the Chief Auto Parts chain,[15] the ice division,[16] and hundreds of store locations,[17] were sold between 1987 and 1990 to relieve debt incurred during the buyout. This downsizing also resulted in numerous metropolitan areas losing 7-Eleven stores to rival convenience store operators. In October 1990, the heavily indebted Southland Corp. filed a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to transfer control of 70% of the company to Japanese affiliate Ito-Yokado.[18]
Southland exited bankruptcy in March 1991, after a cash infusion of $430 million from Ito-Yokado and Seven-Eleven Japan. These two Japanese entities now controlled 70% of the company, with the founding Thompson family retaining 5 percent.[19] In 1999, Southland Corp. changed its name to 7-Eleven, Inc., citing the divestment of operations other than 7-Eleven.[20] Ito-Yokado formed Seven & I Holdings Co. and 7-Eleven became its subsidiary in 2005. In 2007, Seven & I Holdings announced that it would be expanding its U.S. operations, with an additional 1,000 7-Eleven stores in the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven
I like how one person said "so I stayed back" hahaha. There's no staying back for me. There's only leaving the store. I freak out over the tiny lizards that you see randomly...or worse rats.
I went to the backwater hellhole my old roommate was from with him once and got to see alligators. I tried the dance to see if they’d respond, but they just stared.
https://youtu.be/uHTeoZs0854
^^ I like her enthusiasm! Not to mention her smile and "gotcha iguana"!